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December 2019 | NEWSLETTER ISSUE 9: December 2019 | NEWSLETTER INSIDE THIS ISSUE: MESSAGES: UPDATES: CEO: Operational Matters Australian Space Industry Start up Cluster Company Director: Outreach & Communication Education & Training College Recent Events Chief Research Officer Diversity & Inclusion News from Our Partners SMARTSAT CRC NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 9: DECEMBER 2019 Message from the CEO Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the December issue of the SmartSat newsletter. The last few months have been a busy time with lots of activity within the company. I am pleased to share that SmartSat has just appointed a high calibre independent Board to provide critical guidance in this nation-building CRC. The skills based, fully independent Board is comprised of Dr Peter Woodgate as Chair, Dr Michele Allan, Mrs Julie Cooper, Dr Jacqueline Craig FTSE, Adjunct Professor Michael Davis AO, Dr Rosalind Dubs, Professor Margaret Harding and myself. The founding Chair Dr Peter Woodgate highlighted the importance of gender equity and an independent, skills-based Board drawn from across Australia, stating “the founding partners of SmartSat carefully guided the appointment process and expressed strong support for their new Board”. I look forward to working with this dynamic Board Chaired by Dr Peter Woodgate who is highly experienced and knowledgeable in the space and spatial domain and together we will make a big contribution to Australia’s space economy and global competitiveness. The first meeting of the Board was held on Thursday 19th December and I am pleased to announce that they have approved the first five joint projects to be developed in the next 12 to 18 months. Three of the five approved projects develop different aspects of coherent free space optical communications. One project conducts an initial study in RF software defined systems (e.g. beamforming, networking). The fifth one is in the area of environmental water monitoring, and will develop a pilot system able to use Internet-of-Things (IoT) satellite telecommunications solution to collect information from ground water bores in rural and regional areas. This project is the first pilot project of a program of research and space technology demonstrator missions, that the SmartSat will undertake in partnership with CSIRO, which is collectively referred to as the ‘AquaWatch Australia Mission’. The first call for project EOIs received over 100 responses, and would like to thank partners for their efforts in submitting these EOIs. The ‘SmartSat Education College’ has now been established and the Board finalised the Education Strategy. We are continuing to work on the establishment of state nodes as well as our five End-User Advisory Boards. The official launch of the SmartSat CRC will be held in Adelaide on Tuesday 18 February. This will coincide with the opening of the Australian Space Agency’s new headquarters at Lot Fourteen and the Space Forum . Finally, I wish you all a very merry Christmas and trust you will enjoy a well-earned break. We look forward to returning in 2020 (to our new office location) and working with our partners to accelerate our research activities and work towards our mission of developing space technologies that will ensure that Australia builds a new space industry and transforms its major sectors. Thank you again for your ongoing com- mitment and support of this nation-building CRC! SMARTSAT CRC NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 9: DECEMBER 2019 Message from the Director: Outreach and Communication Dear Colleagues, We are now up to our ninth newsletter and as you can see this bulletin offers an opportunity for all SmartSat CRC members, researchers, academics and entrepreneurs to present a snapshot of their initiatives, ideas, expertise and facilities. In the last three months there has been intense activity in engaging national and international space stake- holders to share our vision and explore potential collaborations. We started the distinguished Speaker Event series in October with Luca Del Monte from ESA and we have planned the second event on Saturday 1 February 2020 inviting Sachi Babu and Dr Charles Norton from NASA HQ & Dr Sarah Pearce, Deputy Director of Astronomy and Space Science CSIRO. We have also organised the first bilateral workshop in November with Satellite Applications Catapult (UK) and a second bilat- eral workshop in December with France including Thales, Airbus, the Toulouse University and Britany New Space Research Centre. We are planning the third bilateral workshop with Italy in February involving the Italian Space Agency, E-geos- Telespazio , Sitael and Tyvak. Last September we also began promoting space in schools. In conjunction with Hamilton Secondary College students, we launched a national campaign to identify project ideas using satellite technologies to address global challenges such as the protection of our planet, ending poverty, ensuring peace and many of the 17 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. This activity will be held all over Australia. Relevant future events will be the official SmartSat CRC launch which is planned for Tuesday 18 February in Adelaide which coincides with the launch of the Australian Space Agency HQ and the 9th Australian Space Forum on Wednesday 19 February. The goal of these initiatives is to create a rich and vibrant ecosystem from which new applied research projects emerge which on the one hand respond to specific needs of the industry and on the other can offer innovative solutions for future products and competitive systems. With this newsletter we intend to offer an opportunity to our members to facilitate collaboration among key national and international stakeholders to encourage further growth and innovation within the space economy. I encourage you to share our newsletter with your colleagues who may be interested in our activities. Nicola Sasanelli Message from the Chief Research Officer The last few months have been busy reviewing the initial research project Expressions of Inter- est. Thank you for the hard work in preparing these project proposals which demonstrate the depth of partner expertise and innovative thinking for next generation space system capabilities. With the SmartSat CRC seeking to start the research program in early 2020, we have identified several of the proposals that have high alignment with the SmartSat CRC intended research outputs, are related to each other and can initiate a core component of the research program. We are very pleased with the sharing of ideas between partners and the willingness to work together to develop a strong research program. We have progressed an initial group of proposals in RF, Optical and Hybrid communications, under the High Data Rate Com- munications element of the Research Program 1, to now progress through the selection and approval path (full project development → Research Investment Committee Review → recommendations to the SmartSat CRC Board for approval. Other selected projects in Research Programs 2 and 3 are being developed for consideration at the second SmartSat CRC Board meeting in early 2020. We will work with partners to refine and progress further research EOIs from the initial sub- mission next year. Dr Nick Stacy SMARTSAT CRC NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 9: DECEMBER 2019 Education and Training College On the 1st October Dr Ady James presented a poster at the Australian Space Research Conference about the establishment of the SmartSat CRC Education and Training College. In discussion with other delegates and presenters from the education & training stream it was clear that there was great interest in this area and how the CRC might contribute to the many activities already started in this area. Ady is hoping that the College will take up the challenge of the commitments made in the CRC proposal and work together to co-ordinate efforts in growing the skills necessary to support the industry. The Education College kicked off Contributed by Dr Ady James with it’s initial meeting on 28th October, so thank you to all those who came to Adelaide or joined us via video conference. After agreeing the ToRs and providing feedback on the initial strategy document the participants discussed 3 major agenda items; prioritising the college activities, HDR student skills and a broader Skills Gap Analysis. These last 2 already being identified as initial priorities. After some useful discussions about what was happening across the different institutions represented it was decided that the best approach was to develop a description of the package of work needed to address the skills gap analysis and then put this forward as an opportunity to the group and, possibly, the broader community. It is hoped that this will be ready by the end of the year and that this important work can begin. In the meantime we are gathering useful information around the skills definition, strategies for developing space capability within Australia and relevant offerings across the FE and HE sectors. Our 2nd meeting was held on the 9th December, where PHD scholarships and industry work experience opportunities were discussed. Ady James & Jill Slay SMARTSAT CRC NEWSLETTER: ISSUE 9: DECEMBER 2019 Diversity and Inclusion contribution by Eva Rodriguez Rodriguez The Interim SmartSatCRC Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Committee has been very active and is in the process of completing a number of interviews of SmartSat CRC core partners as part of the pilot pro- gram to better understand the D&I related activities, policies and initiatives already taking place in our partner organisations. This initiative will gauge the D&I activities of SmartSat CRC core and supporting partners in order to determine best practices, encourage knowledge sharing between members, and influence the SmartSat CRC D&I Strategy and program of work moving forward. The pilot program currently Eva Rodriguez Rodriguez encompasses seven core member organisations for engagement and includes conducting personal in- terviews with key staff in order to determine their D&I activities as well as ways that SmartSat could support their D&I efforts. So far, staff of all seven pilot members have been interviewed .
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